TV Producer Index to Mr. Media Interviews

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TV PRODUCER INTERVIEWS

Gary Scott Thompson
“Knight Rider,” “Las Vegas” show runner, executive producer; The Fast and The Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hollow Men, Split Second screenwriter

Katherine Fugate
Army Wives

Bill Prady
The Big Bang Theory; Gilmore Girls; Star Trek Voyager; Dream On; Muppets 3-D

David Simon
The Wire; The Corner; Homicide: Life on the Streets

David Fury
24, Lost; Buffy; Dream On

Brent Power
TheWB.com

Bob Horowitz
The Singing Bee; Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials

Rasha Drachkovitch
Lockup

Kit Boss
Creature Comforts; King of the Hill

Star Price
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Rupert Holmes
Remember WENN

Stephen Chao
Fox TV

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Bill Prady, THE BIG BANG THEORY, TV sitcom co-creator: Mr. Media Interview

Image via WikipediaBill Prady is having a pretty good year, writers’ strike and all, thanks to the success of “The Big Bang Theory,” the hit CBS sitcom he co-created with Chuck Lorre.

If you haven’t seen “The Big Bang Theory,” it co-stars Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as a couple of super-nerds named Leonard and Sheldon, an “in” joke for those of us who remember a sitcom master of old, the late Sheldon Leonard. Leonard produced everything from “Make Room for Daddy” with Danny Thomas to “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Andy Griffith Show.” He was also a director, a writer, and a frequent guest star, including appearing on an episode of HBO’s “Dream On.”

More about that later.

Sheldon and Leonard, the lead characters in “The Big Bang Theory,” have absolutely nothing in common with their namesake that I can figure, except that he’d probably be proud of the tribute because they are smartly-drawn, literate, and most importantly, damn funny.

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Bill Prady, THE BIG BANG THEORY, CBS TV sitcom co-creator: Mr. Media Audio Interview

Bill Prady is having a pretty good year, writer’s strike and all, thanks to the success of “The Big Bang Theory,” the hit CBS sitcom he co-created with Chuck Lorre.

If you haven’t seen “The Big Bang Theory,” it stars Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as a couple of supernerds named Leonard and Sheldon – an in-joke for those of us who remember a sitcom master of old, the late Sheldon Leonard. Leonard produced everything from “Make Room for Daddy” with Danny Thomas to “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Andy Griffith Show. He was also a director, a writer, and a frequent guest star.

Sheldon and Leonard, the lead characters in “The Big Bang Theory” have absolutely nothing in common with their namesake except that he’d probably be proud of the tribute because they are smartly drawn, literate, and, most importantly, damn funny.

This isn't Prady's first rodeo; you've also seen his work on "Gilmore Girls," "Star Trek Voyager," "Dharma & Greg," "Two and a Half Men," "The Cosby Show," and "Dream On."
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Bill Adair, POLITIFACT.com editor and writer: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour

PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate. Bill Adair is the Washington Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg Times. He's worked in Washington since 1997 and is the author of "The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation" www.politifact.com

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Daniel Pink, THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO, FREE AGENT NATION, author: Mr. Media Interview

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Daniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of A WHOLE NEW MIND and FREE AGENT NATION. He lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the changing world of work. In 2007, he won a Japan Society Media Fellowship that took him to Tokyo to study the manga industry. The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is America’s first business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga – and the last career guide you’ll ever need. www.danpink.com

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Bob Delaney and Dave Scheiber, COVERT: MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB, authors: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour
COVERT:MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB by NBA Referee Bob Delaney (with Dave Scheiber) is the must-read true crime book of 2008! Covert is the never-before-told story of how in 1975, after less than two years as a NJ State Trooper, Bob Delaney left the life he knew behind and started a new one as Bobby Covert, president of Alamo Trucking, and principal undercover agent in what would become the landmark mob-busting investigation, Project-Alpha.

Chuck Lorre Productions, #196

My Soul's Journey

To let go of the fear and anger which imprisons my heart,
To relinquish all childish expectations and live joyfully in the
world as it is = =
not as I wish or imagine it to be,
To be free of the always craven and ever-craving ego,
To be released from the endless hungers of the body,
To see God in others,
To see God in everything,
To die without death and merge my consciousness into the
cosmic sea of bliss from which I came,
To crank out two sitcoms a week that can compete
with a deaf chick dancing her ass off . . .
This is my soul's journey.



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